News tagged with solar array
5 Feasible Renewable Energy Sources
(PhysOrg.com) -- President Barack Obama has made no secret of his desire to develop a "green economy" that includes renewable energy projects meant to benefit the environment. He has said that part of the economic recovery in ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
May 08, 2009 |
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$21 Billion Orbiting Solar Array will Beam Electricity to Earth
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Japanese are preparing to develop a two trillion yen (approximately $21 billion USD) space solar project that will beam electricity from space in the form of microwaves or lasers to around ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Sep 15, 2009 |
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Researchers develop a way to funnel solar energy
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using carbon nanotubes (hollow tubes of carbon atoms), MIT chemical engineers have found a way to concentrate solar energy 100 times more than a regular photovoltaic cell. Such nanotubes could ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 12, 2010 |
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How Capt. Kirk Changed the World
"Standard orbit, Mr. Sulu." Captain Kirk barks out the order with such confidence. He knows the USS Enterprise can slip in and out of planetary orbits with ease. But it's only easy in the realm of science ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 05, 2010 |
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New materials turn heat into electricity
Most of today's power plants--from some of the largest solar arrays to nuclear energy facilities--rely on the boiling and condensing of water to produce energy.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Nov 07, 2011 |
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While you're up, print me a solar cell (w/ video)
The sheet of paper looks like any other document that might have just come spitting out of an office printer, with an array of colored rectangles printed over much of its surface. But then a researcher picks ...
Jul 11, 2011 |
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Desert damage: the dark side of solar power?
Thousands of acres of solar panels could spring up across California's Mojave Desert like a crop of crystal mushrooms -- a new kind of gold rush meant to bring powerful environmental benefits.
Mar 30, 2009 |
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A New Method of Estimating Stellar Distances
(PhysOrg.com) -- The star Chi Cygni is located about 550 light-years away, in the direction of the constellation of Cygnus the Swan. It is a notable star because, unlike the sun which still burns hydrogen ...
Dec 21, 2009 |
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General Electric Plans Net-Zero Energy Home by 2015
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using solar panels, wind turbines, appliance monitoring, and on-site energy storage, General Electric has a plan to enable homeowners to cut their annual energy consumption (from the electric ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jul 16, 2009 |
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Precise Radio-Telescope Measurements Advance Frontier Gravitational Physics
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists using a continent-wide array of radio telescopes have made an extremely precise measurement of the curvature of space caused by the Sun's gravity, and their technique promises a ...
Sep 01, 2009 |
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Daunting space task -- send astronauts to asteroid
With the space shuttle now history, NASA's next great mission is so audacious, the agency's best minds are wrestling with how to pull it off: Send astronauts to an asteroid in less than 15 years.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 23, 2011 |
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Mars rover Spirit has unexplained computer reboots
(AP) -- NASA's aging Mars rover Spirit has rebooted its computer at least twice for unknown reasons.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 14, 2009 |
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Solar goes Hyper in the U.S.
As the U.S. government continues to heap billions in subsidies to the world's wealthiest coal and oil companies, the solar industry has been struggling to make it in the United States. This is sad for many reasons, not the ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Feb 21, 2011 |
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Juno solar panels complete testing
The three massive solar panels that will provide power for NASA's Juno spacecraft during its mission to Jupiter have seen their last photons of light until they are deployed in space after launch. The last ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 30, 2011 |
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Astronauts to blast off to expanded space station
A Belgian, a Canadian and a Russian blast off for the International Space Station on Wednesday as Russia steps up its rocket launches to support a doubling of the station's crew.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 26, 2009 |
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Photovoltaic array
A photovoltaic array is a linked collection of photovoltaic modules, which are in turn made of multiple interconnected solar cells. The cells convert solar energy into direct current electricity via the photovoltaic effect. The power that one module can produce is seldom enough to meet requirements of a home or a business, so the modules are linked together to form an array. Most PV arrays use an inverter to convert the DC power produced by the modules into alternating current that can plug into the existing infrastructure to power lights, motors, and other loads. The modules in a PV array are usually first connected in series to obtain the desired voltage; the individual strings are then connected in parallel to allow the system to produce more current. Solar arrays are typically measured by the peak electrical power they produce, in watts, kilowatts, or even megawatts.
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